Kishwar Desai | Nostalgia week: England settle score; but Di not looking herself
Published : Jul 5, 2021, 7:26 am IST
Updated : Jul 5, 2021, 7:26 am IST
Sculptor Ian Rank Broadley said he had worked through anecdotes, photographs and documents, and had tried to capture her warmth
Britain s Prince William, left and Prince Harry unveil a statue they commissioned of their mother Princess Diana, on what woud have been her 60th birthday, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London, Thursday July 1, 2021. (AP/PTI)
I guess we will continue to create statues as they will, hopefully, outlive us and tell the future world who our icons were. And, despite the recent protests, during Black Lives Matter, we still feel that it is a means of honouring those who contributed something valuable. But just last week, while the statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II were being yanked down and decapitated in Canada by angry crowds a brand new statue of another Royal icon, Pri
Kim Leadbeater: New Batley and Spen MP takes Commons seat
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Keir Starmer s leadership won by-election in Batley and Spen, insists Labour ally
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Boris Johnson pierde otra elección parcial y el Labour salva los muebles de milagro
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Los ‘tories’ no consiguen conquistar un tradicional bastión laborista de Yorkshire
La laborista Kim Leadbeater abraza a su madre después de haber ganado las elecciones en Yorkshire
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En política británica, la noche de los cuchillos largos fue una drástica remodelación ministerial del primer ministro conservador Harold Macmillan en julio de 1962 en respuesta a una serie de derrotas electorales y a la impopularidad de su gestión económica. Cesó de un plumazo a un tercio del Gabinete. Unos se lo tomaron mejor que otros. Lord Kilmuir, un veterano que había servido a las órdenes de Churchill, le plantó cara: “Yo le habría dado más preaviso a mi cocinero”. “Un buen cocinero es difícil de encontrar, en cambio ministros decentes los hay a montones”, le respondió el líder.
Labour holds Batley and Spen ‘against the odds’
July 3, 2021
LONDON: Sir Keir Starmer has hailed a victory “against the odds” after Labour hung on to win in the Batley and Spen by-election.
Kim Leadbeater squeezed home by just 323 votes after a bitter and divisive campaign that many had predicted the party would lose. The result came as a huge relief to the beleaguered Labour leader after the party’s bruising loss in the Hartlepool by-election in May.
It was also a personal triumph for Leadbeater, whose sister, Jo Cox, represented the seat for Labour until her murder by a far-right extremist in 2016. Afterwards an emotional Leadbeater declared: “If I can be half the MP Jo was I know I will do her proud and I will do my family proud.”